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  • From: Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] First attempt at xorg-modular build
  • Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:02:57 -0600

I got around most of these type problem by creating 2 links

/usr/X11R6 -> /usr
/usr/X11 -> /usr

With those to most of these problems went away but there are few spells
in the grimoires that delete these links and make real directories.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 22:00 -0500, George Sherwood wrote:
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> With help from ruskie today, I installed xorg-modular and was able to
> get it up and running.
>
> Overall the installation went very smoothly. A few of the default
> selections for options could be better and I think that ruskie has
> fixed most of them already. In particular you need to select to
> build xorg-server and select to build with setuid. You also have to
> remember to separately cast the drivers that you need. In my case
> vmware (video driver), keyboard, mouse.
>
> Getting the fonts working correctly took a little bit of work since
> you have to manually select which font spells to cast, but it seems to
> be okay now, but not quite optimal.
>
> In order to get xorg-modular working with xfce4-profile, I had to add
> the following libs to the default xorg-server build:
>
> libxrender
> libxrandr
> libxinerama
> libxcursor
> libxfixes
> iceauth
> sessreg (not sure if needed or not)
> libxft
>
> So of these would probably be pulled in by DEPENDS if I had cast them
> in a different order. The biggest problem I have right now is with the
> location of iceauth. Xorg-6.90 installs the file in /usr/X11R6/bin and
> the spell iceauth installs to /usr/bin. As far as I can tell
> libxfce4mcs when establishing the session can't find iceauth unless I
> put a copy in /usr/X11R6/bin. I am sure there is a way, I just haven't
> figured it out yet.
>
> I will keep tweaking with it over the next few days. Great job by
> CuZnDragon and ruskie getting it this far.
>
> George Sherwood
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